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-- apparently James Bond's workout - m1k3y

cyberpunk future present ++ - m1k3y

"Tonight, the living-room is full with people from many places, chattering away. Some are local, while others come from the United States, England, Finland, Argentina, and France. Many are travelers, some experienced hitchhikers, sailors, or cyclists, and others are people of the first generation of digital nomads, all sharing in some degree a desire for togetherness and an uncharted life." - m1k3y

Possibly better than Charlie Jane's Transformers 2 review - m1k3y

"An Apache revolver is a handgun which incorporates multiple other weapons, made notorious by the French underworld figures of the early 1900s known as Les Apaches." - m1k3y

"The city was founded in 1350 by King U Thong, who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri and proclaimed it the capital of his kingdom, often referred to as the Ayutthaya kingdom or Siam. It is estimated that Ayutthaya by the year 1600 CE had a population of about 300,000, with the population perhaps reaching 1,000,000 around 1700 CE, making it one of the world's largest cities at that time.[1]" - m1k3y

According to an interview with PhysOrg.com, Mureika and Stojkovic have calculated that the early universe didn't only possess a hot, energetic primordial state of matter, but it also had a primordial state of dimensions. If they're correct, the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time that make the four-dimensional spacetime we live in today isn't how it's always been -- the Universe may have existed in a lower dimensional state in the past. - m1k3y

The currency also had a third problem: its value as silver bullion in Paris and Amsterdam was greater than the face value in London. Thus vast quantities of coins were melted and shipped abroad — an arbitrage market. New Acts of Parliament were passed in order to create the Bank of England and protect national military security. This situation also triggered William Lowndes of the Treasury to ask Isaac Newton for help.[1] Chaloner was part of one of the many coining gangs that existed. In 1691 Chaloner produced French Pistoles worth about 17 shillings each, using an alloy of silver. Chaloner was renowned in the coining community for the quality of his work and his prolific success. He purchased a large house in the semi-rural suburb of Knightsbridge, rode in a carriage, bought plate and dressed like a gentleman.[2] “ - m1k3y

it's just not that hard.. unless you're a greedy corp and want to control everything, rather than moving with the new reality - m1k3y

Quote: In a wise and enlightened society, the Revolution Party would win by a landslide. In our present society, they don't stand a snowball's chance in hell. They won't win many converts from the hard-nosed right, the bleeding heart left, or the mindless middle, but you've got to love a party whose slogan is "Victory Over Horseshit". Of course, a real victory over horseshit would mean the end of politics as we know it. Hey, wait - that's not a bad idea . . . - RA - m1k3y

Pretty convincing actually.. - m1k3y

“We want to perform the so-called `unproved theorem paradox' experiment, in which the time traveler sees an elegant proof of a theorem in a book,” Lloyd said. “She goes back in time and shows the proof to a mathematician, who includes the proof in the book that he is writing. Of course, the book is the same book from which the time traveler took the proof in the first place. Where did the proof come from? Our theory has a specific prediction/retrodiction for this paradox, which we wish to test experimentally.” - m1k3y

"The actual objective situation looks more like this: No money, scarcity, financial collapse, collapsed states, general precarity, an energy crisis, low intensity global warfare, and a rapidly advancing climate crisis. That’s the situation on the ground. People ask where did the future go? Where are these glamorous versions of the future? Why are we…? - Okay, we’re deliberately choosing to move away from that and into a non-twentieth century space. We’re moving into a situation with Generation-Xers in power, in a Depression. A Depression where people are afraid of the sky. That’s what the next decade actually looks like. And you’re going to live there." - m1k3y

"It’s critical to understand this will pass, this period has clear issues and a victory condition. There’s a promising situation called chic favela gothic. We’ll grow into an oxymoron. Realizing contradictions open things back up. Favelas are the plant nurseries, the squats, the reunited spaces, repurposed structures. High-end, low-end, for everybody. Chic favela gothic looks like a violent contradiction of terms, but it will make sense. In 2020 children of digital natives will be interested in their analogue grandparents, in our parents. Those living from ‘45 to ‘89 will be romantic to young people denied that way of life...It won’t be shiny or new but fashionable to count cost and valorize painstaking, beautiful analogue things that belonged to long dead atomic ladies and gentlemen. They’ll prize analogue museum pieces for weird, wrong reasons... Everybody lives in museums, in resolving contradictions. In new forms of the old continuity." - m1k3y

excellent point. for now..? - m1k3y

50 gibsonian points - m1k3y

-- I am ashamed to have only just learnt of this most interesting human being - m1k3y

-- fascinating thoughts, as per usual, out of BERG - m1k3y

I think I need this, like.. A LOT - m1k3y

Shanzai is the name used for a huge black market industry that (currently) specialises in making fake mobile phones in small factories. Basements. We’re not talking about a few phones either. The volume is terrifying. According to CCID Consulting in 2007 an estimated 150 million phones - 20% of the 750 million devices produced in China - were counterfeit or off brand. - m1k3y

"A fully-functioning "underground city," Camp Century even had its own mobile nuclear reactor—an "Alco PM-2A"—that kept the whole thing lit up and running during the Cold War." - m1k3y

"All hail our weird new robot overlords indeed. Welcome to the fourth kingdom of nature, folks." - m1k3y

interesting collection of definitions here.. - m1k3y

"the PSIR Model of Domestic Political Violence forecasts political violence levels 5 years into the future. " - m1k3y

a blog post assembled from tweets riffing of a blog post, with bonus commentary and.. just so very 20!! - m1k3y

must read: John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up - m1k3y

As the designer says, perfect for a fanfilm.. - m1k3y

Sounds eerily like US Ident in Southland Tales, amongst other things - m1k3y

What blogs and website have that Twitter lacks is rediscoverability. - m1k3y

See, it's not just me that thinks this.. - m1k3y